Honey mandarin about ten feet tall growing in Santa Cruz California. We have a very small lot in Santa Cruz with 20 fruit trees all sharing space. Nothing can match tree ripened fruit. Grocery store fruit, picked green and hard, just can’t compare. They all seem to know and accept their close quarters, grateful forContinue reading “Honey Mandarin”
Tag Archives: El Camino
The Last Hill
Looking back on this photo, I feel great nostalgia and pain. This is my wife walking down the last hill of El Camino de Compostela a few kilometers before Santiago. She had to tape her feet every morning because of the many blisters. The fatigue is palpable because we have both walked more kilometers thanContinue reading “The Last Hill”
Promesa
A sign along the Portuguese route El Camino of St. James. Many of the Spanish walking El Camino are doing it as part of a promesa. A promesa is a tradition in Spanish Catholicism where a person asks a saint to intercede in their request ,in exchange for a personal sacrifice. For example, “heal myContinue reading “Promesa”
Head for the Hills 